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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Device-quality, reconfigurable metamaterials from shape-directed nanocrystal assembly.

Wenjie Zhou, Zizhuo Liu, Ziyin Huang, Haixin Lin, Devleena Samanta, Qing-Yuan Lin, Koray Aydin, Chad A Mirkin

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Bottom-Up Metasurfaces for Biotechnological Applications.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  9. Peptidic Sulfhydryl for Interfacing Nanocrystals and Subsequent Sensing of SARS-CoV-2 Protease.Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society · 2022
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8 authors.

Wenjie ZhouInternational Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.ORCID 0000-0002-7626-4032
Zizhuo LiuInternational Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.ORCID 0000-0001-5657-8803
Ziyin HuangInternational Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.ORCID 0000-0002-7685-4278
Haixin LinInternational Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.ORCID 0000-0003-4650-0062
Devleena SamantaInternational Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.ORCID 0000-0002-0647-7673
Qing-Yuan LinInternational Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.
Koray AydinInternational Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208; aydin@northwestern.edu chadnano@northwestern.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-3268-2216
Chad A MirkinInternational Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208; aydin@northwestern.edu chadnano@northwestern.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-6634-7627

Funding

Developing Capacity to Evaluate Training Programs via Development of Human, Institutional and Social CapitalT32GM008449 · NIGMS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI LEONARD, JOSHUA NATHANIEL · 1993 to 2023
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NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008449
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anchoring nanoscale building blocks, regardless of their shape, into specific arrangements on surfaces presents a significant challenge for the fabrication of next-generation chip-based nanophotonic devices. Current methods to prepare nanocrystal arrays lack the precision, generalizability, and postsynthetic robustness required for the fabrication of device-quality, nanocrystal-based metamaterials [Q. Y. Lin et al. Nano Lett. 15, 4699-4703 (2015); V. Flauraud et al., Nat. Nanotechnol. 12, 73-80 (2017)]. To address this challenge, we have developed a synthetic strategy to precisely arrange any anisotropic colloidal nanoparticle onto a substrate using a shallow-template-assisted, DNA-mediated assembly approach. We show that anisotropic nanoparticles of virtually any shape can be anchored onto surfaces in any desired arrangement, with precise positional and orientational control. Importantly, the technique allows nanoparticles to be patterned over a large surface area, with interparticle distances as small as 4 nm, providing the opportunity to exploit light-matter interactions in an unprecedented manner. As a proof-of-concept, we have synthesized a nanocrystal-based, dynamically tunable metasurface (an anomalous reflector), demonstrating the potential of this nanoparticle-based metamaterial synthesis platform.

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AnisotropyColloidsCrystallizationDNAGoldMetal NanoparticlesParticle SizeSurface PropertiesColloidsDNAGoldDNA-mediated assemblygold nanocrystalsreconfigurable metamaterialssurface patterning

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PMID32817562
PMCPMC7474604

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